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Description: | Scale: 1:60. A contemporary full hull model of the 'Hyacinth' (1829), a ship rigged sloop 18-gun sixth-rate, built plank on frame and sailor made. Model is decked, equipped and rigged with three masts and flying a white ensign from the peak of the gaff.
Launched at Plymouth in 1829, the `Hyacinth? measured 109 feet along the gun deck by 30 feet in the beam, and it had a tonnage of 435 burden. It was flush-decked with a small forecastle and quarterdeck, and was armed with sixteen 32-pounder carronades and two 6-pounder guns. During its 42-year career, it was stationed in the West and East Indies from 1829-41, took part in the China Wars from 1841-42, and from 1843-46 it was stationed off the west coast of Africa in the suppression of the slave trade. After being reduced to 14 guns in 1847, it later became a coal hulk at Portsmouth before being broken up in 1871.
CA: AAA.
caption: 'Hyacinth' - port broadside
caption: 'Hyacinth' - bow three quarter
caption: 'Hyacinth' - stern quarter
caption: HMS 'Hyacinth' | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum full hull ship models Hyacinth (1829) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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